This beautiful predominantly beech forest on the eastern edge of Brittany has many well-marked options for walkers. The surfaced forest tracks (not normally open to traffic) are long, straight routes radiating out from the various crossroad points which
have parking and picnic tables. Other winding paths through the trees
crisscross the tracks and provide circuits of about 1h30mins.

The main road D177 (direction Landéan, Louvigné-du-Désert) runs right through the middle of the forest and passes the Carrefour de Chedenet, a good
enough place to start as any. Off to one side here is the leisure lake with a
beach, kayaks and a walking trail. A short distance away on the other is the
famous Cordon des Druides stone alignment. From the crossroads you can also take
the route to the Pierre de Trésor (megalith), a site on the very attractive
Circuit de Longue Noë (6.3kms).

Circuits are easy to follow with colour-coded waymarking on trees at
very regular intervals and clearly signed points of interest. There are many of
the latter: megaliths, underground cellars, salt-smugglers paths and a
Gallo-Roman camp.

This Oppidum de Poulailler, naturally situated on the highest point, can
be seen just off the GR which passes through the forest (red and white
waymarks) and also touches the Carrefour de Chedenet. It also passes the
megalith of the Pierre Courcoulée (which has its own 4.7km circuit).

The circuit of the Vieux Chateaux (5.4kms) includes the Cordon des
Druides mentioned above and takes a long loop to return via the lake below the
hamlet of St-François where there was once an ancient monastery.

The forest provides any number of strolls without the need for following
a particular route. From the Carrefour de Chedenet to the Carrefour des
Serfilières and back on the same route (technically the path is part of the
Circuit de Pierre Enfouie) will offer a very pleasant hour’s walk. No wooded
walk lover will be disappointed by this fabulous forest.